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The lich / l ɪ tʃ / [1] is an undead creature found in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. Liches are spellcasters [ 2 ] who seek to defy death by magical means. The term derives from lich , an archaic term for a corpse .
Spell for preventing a man's corpse from putrefying in the realm of the dead in order to rescue him from the eater of souls. [97] 164. A spell to preserve a person's body after death, to be said over a figurine of three-headed Mut. [98] 165. Spell for mooring and noth letting the Sacred Eye be injured, for maintaining the corpse and drinking ...
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the undead are a broad classification of monsters that can be encountered by player characters. [1]: 269–331 Undead creatures are most often once-living creatures, which have been animated by spiritual or supernatural forces. They range from mindless remnants of corpses such as skeletons ...
Related to modern German leiche or modern Dutch lijk, both meaning 'corpse') is a type of undead creature. Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith 's " The Empire of the Necromancers " ( 1932 ), had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games.
In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, rule books contain all the elements of playing the game: rules to the game, how to play, options for gameplay, stat blocks and lore of monsters, and tables the Dungeon Master or player would roll dice for to add more of a random effect to the game.
Corporeal undead refers to mythical or legendary undead creatures who have a body or some substantial form. This is opposed to incorporeal undead, who "exist" but are not composed of matter ( e.g. ghosts ).
Lords of Darkness is a collection presenting ten short adventure scenarios that take place in the Forgotten Realms, each of them focusing on undead monsters such as skeletons, ghouls, wights, shadows, mummies, vampires, and ghosts; the book also contains suggestions on role-playing undead and a section called "A Mundane Guide to Wards vs. Undead, Spirits, and Other Entities". [1]
Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead is a book which is an official supplement for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The book covers the fictional undead within the D&D universe and comprises seven chapters, introducing new content for Dungeon Masters and players, as well as providing general information about undead.